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Catalogue of the Stowe manuscripts in the British museum

by: British Museum. Dept. of manuscripts (Stowe mss.); Grevnille, Richard Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos, 1st duke of Buckingham and Chandos, 1776-1839; Grenville, Richard Plantagenet Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos, 2d duke of Buckingham and Chandos, 1797-1861; Ashburnham, Bertram Ashburnham, Earl of, 1797-1878; O'Conor, Charles, 1764-1828

Publication date: 1895
Topics: Manuscripts
Publisher: London : Printed by order of the Trustees
Collection: cornell; americana
Contributor: Cornell University Library
Language: English
Item Size: 1.1G

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Collection originally formed by George Temple Nugent Grenville, marquis of Buckingham, from various sources (Thomas Astle's collection, Charles O'Conor's Irish mss., the Essex papers and mss.) Extended by Richard, 1st duke of Buckingham and Chandos, and sold in 1849 by Richard, the 2d duke, to Bertram, earl of Ashburnham. Purchased in 1883 brom the estate of the latter by the British museum, the Irish mss. being transferred to the library of the Royal Irish academy, Dublin. A catalogue of the collection was issued in 1818-19 under title Bibliotheca ms. Stowensiss

v. 1. Text. 1895.--v. 2. Index. 1896